89% Reviewer Flickchart Ranking: 601 / 5,424 Love Lies Bleeding (2024) stars the infinitely wonderful Kristen Stewart as Lou, a haggard gym manager, and Katy O’Brian as the seemingly naive burgeoning bodybuilder Jackie. Lou is burned out of life; she wears the weight of the past over the entirety of her being. Jackie comes to our story bright, homeless, and willing to do almost anything to progress toward her goal of winning an upcoming bodybuilding competition in Las Vegas. Jackie only sees future.  Each plot beat could feel worn out, recycled indie territory, from the inevitable romanc ..read more

Silly naming conventions aside, the promise of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is certainly there. Godzilla and King Kong teaming up to fight other giant monsters is the exact kind of schlocky premise that can fill theater seats. It’s a concept that invites you to turn off your brain, sit back, and enjoy some mindless violence. And yet, while the film takes some steps forward in giving the giant monsters more focus, rather than repeating the irritating decision of past MonsterVerse films to continually cut away to bland human characters, the film still teeters back and forth between ..read more

Reviewer Flickchart ranking: 2,219 / 5,423 (59%) Newly-minted household name Sydney Sweeney is back on the silver screen in her second team-up with director Michael Mohan, following The Voyeurs (2021). In this film incarnation, Sweeney plays Cecilia, a young American woman preparing to take her vows at a picturesque Italian convent. We are told the convent specializes in late-in-life care for ill and aging nuns. Run by the alluring Father Tedeschi (Alvaro Morte) and Cardinal Merola (Giorgio Colangeli), the convent hints at modern horrors deep within the ancient catacombs below.  Immacula ..read more

For all of the horror sludge that major studios dump into cinemas, there continue to be stalwarts that hold on to a higher standard. The indie and small-budget worlds are where creativity and more expansive concepts for horror movies often thrive. Late Night with the Devil is one such work. Brothers Cameron and Colin Cairnes are not new to horror filmmaking, but this feels like their creative arrival. The film excels in part due to its commitment to an aesthetic. The aesthetic here being a late-night 70s talk show. Positing itself as the found footage of the final broadcast of a show hos ..read more

In a word? Tedious. The writing was tedious. The direction was tedious. The plot was tedious. The characters were tedious. While hardly the worst or most offensive franchise legacy sequel, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is mostly a drag to watch. This is exemplified in every scene with Bill Murray, who seems utterly bored by the tedium of it all. Like Ghostbusters: Afterlife before it, Frozen Empire continues the bizarre mistake of following the formula that has plagued many of these soft reboots over the last decade. Aside from how played-out many of these nostalgia-lad ..read more

Forgive the obvious pun, but Imaginary is a film sorely lacking imagination. An ostensible horror flick from the genius director Jeff Wadlow, behind such Blumhouse classics as Truth or Dare and Fantasy Island, it seems Wadlow has hit a new low in his filmmaking. Imaginary manages the miracle of shoving every single jump scare Blumhouse horror trope into one film. Every line of dialogue feels like it was deliberately written to be as generic as possible. Every edit and beat seems like it had to meet with approval by audience research pools or test screenings ..read more

Every year, we at Flickchart publish our year-end list of the best films of the previous year, as ranked by our users. This year, our list of the Top 20 Films of 2023 was published on January 6, 2024. As more users see and rank more movies, the global Flickchart — and each year in microcosm — is in constant flux. We took another look at the top 20 films of 2022 on January 10, 2024. Today we’re looking at the Top 20 Films of 2018. For comparison’s sake, you can see how that list looked on January 1, 2019 and January 13, 2020. So what’s happened since? 20. Upgrade Directed by Leigh Whannell C ..read more

“…within the three great desert faiths there was a feminine impulse, less strong but ever present, the tradition of absorption rather than assertion, assertive rather than authority, of play rather than dogmatic servitude. Think of the delicate poetry of the song of songs or the delicacy of the celebration of the maternal represented by the Renaissance Madonna or the architectural lines of the medieval mosques of Spain, light as music. And yet the louder, more persistent tradition has been male concerned with power and blood…” – Richard Rodriguez Our messiah comes into an ersatz-Jerusalem ..read more

Denis Villeneuve‘s Dune took the world mostly by storm back in 2021. Frank Herbert’s sci-fi opera classic was long considered an un-filmable work. David Lynch‘s ill-fated 1984 attempt was considered an exemplar of that reality (though has more merit than many credit it). Yet Villeneuve proved the world wrong with his specific style of filmmaking, managing to boil down half of Dune‘s story into a work that kept the operatic scope of the novel while maintaining fidelity to the themes and storytelling beats. The biggest complaint with the first film was that it ended on a cliffhanger a ..read more

For the thirteenth year in a row, Flickcharters have voted for their favorites in a wide variety of categories, from the worst and best of the previous year to the films that interest us most in the coming year. Now that the votes have been tallied, here are your winners for The 13th Annual Flickcharters’ Choice Awards!   Best Foreign Language Film Anatomy of a Fall The Boy and the Heron Godzilla Minus One Society of the Snow The Zone of Interest And The Winner Is… No surprise that Godzilla Minus One would have a monstrous lead in this category, earning 43.8% of the vote ..read more